UPDATE: [Computing-Internet] Popular Print Cultures

CONTINUITIES AND INNOVATIONS:POPULAR PRINT CULTURES â€" PAST AND PRESENT, LOCAL AND GLOBALUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, Alberta, Canada27-30 August 2008

Having received additional funding we are able to expand the conference andextend the deadline for submission of proposals to June 30th.

The conference and popular arts festival consider what most people read,here and elsewhere, now and in the past. Popular print characteristicallyincludes both words and images, and is intertwined with music andperformance. In these forms it has been and continues to be one of the mostpowerful cultural forces in history, morphing into new media and newtechnologies, from the phonograph record through radio, film, andtelevision to video games and the internet. â€œContinuities and Innovationsâ€brings together all those interested in popular print culture--readers andwriters, publishers and fans, librarians and collectors, teachers andstudents, and of course researchers in many academic disciplines.

Topics can include relations between popular print and other media, betweenpopular and â€œhighâ€ literatures, between words and images, between words andmusic, between past and present forms, and so on. Presentations may be fromwriters, readers, publishers, teachers, students, distributors, sellers,librarians, illustrators, opponents, promoters, adapters to other media,fans, collectors, et al. Papers and presentations can be on any relevanttopicâ€"reading popular print and creating it, writing it and illustratingit, publishing it and selling it, counteracting it or transforming it,adapting it and influencing it, censoring it and living it, and more.Participants may consider popular print and politics, religion, sexuality,class, ethnicity, â€œrace,â€ nationality, or any other theme.